Calls for renewed diplomatic engagement with Moscow are exposing tensions between national capitals and Brussels over control of European foreign policy.
A government-appointed board has ruled a Christian hymn, traditionally sung at end-of-year school celebrations for generations, discriminated against one student.
The former minister is taking her case to Strasbourg, convinced that her case is no longer simply about religion or Finland but about who decides the limits of acceptable speech in Europe.
This case will decide whether Europe’s public square stays open to clashing ideas—or starts excluding views for what they represent, not what they provoke.
